Lab 1

  For this lab I was required to symbolize data for the downtown/central business district area of Eau Claire Wisconsin. The project was designed to show different types of data which may have an influence on the decision making for the Confluence Project of Eau Claire; a mixed use assortment of buildings that combines contemporary ground level businesses with campus housing for fine arts students in the above floors. The location of the confluence project, as its name may suggest, is on the southern bank of where the Eau Claire River flows into the Chippewa River. It covers several adjacent lots and is being funded by a combination of funds from the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, business investments, and donations from community members. At the time of this writing the Confluence Project is currently under construction.   

  As this is the first lab for this class it was designed to familiarize students with some of the basic functions of ArcMap. Through the completion of this project I was able to view attribute tables for data sets, create a shapefile to delineate the area of the Confluence Project, and use basic cartographic techniques to display the data. One can see my results below in Figure 1. 

Figure 1. Assortment of maps displaying pertinent information for the Eau Claire Confluence Project.